Comments on: KDE 4.2 in openSUSE [Updated]

By: Netscapist

Netscapist — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:30:48 +0000

After all Suspend to RAM does not work.

By: spurwonofjp

spurwonofjp — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:27:34 +0000

Hi, Jez. You can uncheck the “show animations” in the RSSNOW settings to get inline with applet-screen box. Yeah, now still happy with KDE 4.2 for nice Kopete, Kmail, new powerdevil, and bunch of widgets, even rather tough it out coz wasnt used to clean up the applet in every new arrangement of panels or widgets ;-) But Amarok2 has broken playback and many bugs related with deprecated kdebase and runtime. Hey, KDE 4.2 lost my TVout Fn-key too!
Anyway, kudos to KDE team. Thanks!

By: Jez

Jez — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:51:28 +0000

I liked the old news ticker, the update removed it and the RSSNOW does not seem to do a single line at the top of the screen, just above my browser :-(

By: Chuck Taylor

Chuck Taylor — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:56:17 +0000

In response to my own question, in case anyone else had this problem, it was round-aboutly answered below by systo. However, inside ~/.kde4/share/config/ I had to remove both plasma-appletsrc and plasmarc. There was a mention of a brute force method of deleting the whole ~/.kde4 dir but that did not work. Everything came back as before. In addition I had to remove all those bogus icons. The only valid icon placed on the Desktop by the install was the trashcan. Everything else on my Desktop had to be added by me via the menus.

By: enthalpie

enthalpie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:26:30 +0000

on site stable is always 4.1.3 and 4.2 is factory but not stable ?
update problem of the site ?

By: gekko75

gekko75 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:55:33 +0000

I really do not know why you all put your warnings upon installing these 4.2 packages on i.e. suse 11.1. For me they work far better then those packaged in the distribution (the original 4.1 ones). I really recommend everyone that uses 4.1 to upgrade as soon as possible. And that there is no support is not striking because you can upgrade manually. Fewer bugs in 4.2 upgrade!

By: Mario Vazquez

Mario Vazquez — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:31:49 +0000

While there are new things in KDE 4.2, the need to upgrade to it is not as important like in other distributions since SUSE backported some of the features like Desktop Folder View to 4.1.x.

And for the person that mention KDE 4 is bloated. Have you really take the time to use KDE 4.1 or greater. Menus and screen options are simpler than KDE 3.x counterparts. And for those that dont want to use extra plasmoids for CPU/memory concerns, then don’t use them.

By: Shrisha

Shrisha — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:55:41 +0000

@systo and kaddy

Thanks a lot.

Deleting the file ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc has solved my problem.

But, i did not face this problem when i was using opensuse 11.1 with kde 4.1.3.

Neways, thanks once again.

By: kaddy

kaddy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:31:17 +0000

Yeah! I had that same problem… it happens every now and then… I don’t know how…
But deleting your .kde4 folder fixes the problem after a logout and login… but then you gotta
re do any kde settings you had previously.

kaddy

By: systo

systo — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:56:16 +0000

Delete file ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc, if you removing plasmoids, before an logout. It will be auto recreated at next logon.